considered individually; "the respective club members"; "specialists in their several fields"; "the various reports all agreed"
Different; diverse; several; manifold; as, men of various names; various occupations; various colors
having great diversity or variety; "his various achievements are impressive"; "his vast and versatile erudition"
If a number of things are described as various, they are very different from one another. The methods are many and various. the country's rich and various heritage. = varied
distinctly dissimilar or unlike; "diverse parts of the country"; "celebrities as diverse as Bob Hope and Bob Dylan"; "animals as various as the jaguar and the cavy and the sloth"
If you say that there are various things, you mean there are several different things of the type mentioned. The school has received various grants from the education department
of many different kinds purposefully arranged but lacking any uniformity; "assorted sizes"; "his disguises are many and various"; "various experiments have failed to disprove the theory"; "cited various reasons for his behavior"